Eggcorn? "warn" > "worn"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Feb 8 20:17:29 UTC 2009


"The only thing to do is to _worn_ you guys [away] from this [kind] of
low-end product."


This one probably is dialect-dependent. In my speech, "warn" and
"worn" don't fall together, though, e.g. "sense," "since," and "cents"
do.

-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Mark Twain

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